[Flightgear-users] Meet the Fokkers

2004-12-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Merry Christmas everybody. Erik inline: MTF.jpg___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-users] Meet the Fokkers

2004-12-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Merry Christmas everybody. I thought those Fokkers were aircraft :-) No, they are an endangered species that help Santa move the packages every year. Erik Which one's Rudolph? I think that's pretty obvious :-) Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Instrument Panel development tools?

2004-12-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Does anybody know what happened to this project: http://www.chez.com/tipunch/fgpanel/ Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem with fgrun

2004-12-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi All While playing with FG today I managed to mess up fgrun. This problem has most certainly something to do with the change to the X-Plane configuration format. I consider this to be a show stopper. Erik ___ Flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem with fgrun

2004-12-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: I would just like to know were else FGRUN is hiding the set up information other than in the SYSTEM.FGFSRC file.It must hide it somewhere otherwise were would it get the old setup on a new install. There should be a .fltk/flightgear.org directory in your home directory.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem with fgrun

2004-12-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Erik Sorry for seeming so dumb but were might I find that on a windows 98 system. To be honest, I wouldn't know. I presume there should be an fltk directory located in the user directory. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem with fgrun

2004-12-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi All While playing with FG today I managed to mess up fgrun. This problem has most certainly something to do with the change to the X-Plane configuration format. I consider this to be a show stopper. I've created a patch against the CVS version

Re: [Flightgear-users] Beech 99 Flaps Not Responding

2005-01-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: Thanks for the report. Actually, I don't recall a Beech 99 model under JSBSim - someone correct me if I'm wrong. Can you send me the flight model file? I'd like to take a look. I might find the problem, but I don't have that file. It's LaRCsim/UIUC: beech99-v1-uiuc-set.xml Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flightgear not starting

2005-01-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Jörg Meyer wrote: fgfs: pcm.c:1080: snd_pcm_writei: Assertion `pcm-setup' failed. - - - - - The splash screen windows opens, remains black and closes again. Of course, there is no file called pcm.c in the source tree. This is OpenAL support again, somehow a lot of drivers don't work very well in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick - how to make FG use my joystick.xml?

2005-01-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Don Oliver wrote: js_demo recognizes my joystick as Logitech Inc. WingMan Force 3d 0.9.8 has wingman-force-3d.xml In 0.9.4, which did not have the file for this joystick, I just edited the default joystick.xml to have the values that I wanted How do I tell FG to use wingman-force-3d, instead of

Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick - how to make FG use my joystick.xml?

2005-01-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Don Oliver wrote: --- Erik Hofman wrote: There is a name tag in that file, if all goes well you will have to _add_ the following line below the one already present: nameLogitech Inc. WingMan Force 3d/name That line is already present, No, it's not. the one present is called: Logitech Inc

Re: [Flightgear-users] Atlas

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh (Norm) Audette wrote: Does anybody know if Atlas works with the latest FlightGear 0.9.8-pre2? You can find your answer here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6216612forum_id=3236 Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Beech 99 Flaps Not Responding

2005-01-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Thomas Markowitz wrote: Eric, Just wondering if you received the Beech 99 folder and had a chance to look at it in regard to flaps not responding. I am I can't remember having received anything regarding the Beech 99. now running it under LaRCsim per your message but the results are the same

Re: [Flightgear-users] A little help with a new aircraft

2005-01-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Bill Galbraith wrote: I've just upgraded from FlightGear 0.9.4 to 0.9.6. I am using the Windows distibution executable installation, on a system that used to run 0.9.4 just fine, including my new model for the JPATS (The T-6A Texan II). System is Windows XP, 1.5 Ghz, 16 Meg Rage AGI Ultra video

Re: [Flightgear-users] RE: Loading Problems

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Grayham Smith wrote: After running the program about fifty times I have managed to read the reason for not loading, pity it only shows on the screen for a split second:- Unable to load the protocol configuration file Error opening file Error opening channel communication layer I/O channel config

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear beeps at the beginning for few times, then crashes

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Dan Duris wrote: OK: Beeping start about this time: (probably after 'From file sounds sample = D:/Games/FlightGear/data/ATC/default.wav' is displayed) Initializing OpenAL sound manager . Program CRASH occurs here: Fatal error: Failed to gen source. (received from ) Deleting sample ( this is

Re: [Flightgear-users] fail to start the FG on Win2K/Athlon XP 1700++

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Andrzej Leszczynski wrote: I installed the most up to date version (a few days ago) and for most of the airplains (in fact the only obe I was able to fly was some military ariplane - can not recall the name now). I have got following message: Failed to find runway 28R at airport KNUQ Fatal error:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with Version 0.98 - sound card

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Mike wrote: Hello ! Hello Mike. I have a problem after installation the version 0.98. I got following message after execution. There is a problem with the sound library. It's not really a FlightGear problem, but it is a combination of the audio driver, OpenAL (a 3d sound library FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with Version 0.98 - sound card

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Erik Hofman: Fred, it might be a good idea to create a new executable compiled against the new libsgsound.a file as it is in CVS now. That should solve the problem. It is not a problem to build the executable if Curt is ready to make a new win32 package. You might

Re: [Flightgear-users] resolving sound problems

2005-01-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Dan Duris wrote: Dear developers, (if there is one here) as I see the sound problems are very very often here at the list, could someone please add the solution I have described here to the documentation for Windows users? Especially this hits heavily AC 97 Realtek sound cards (on board mostly?).

Re: [Flightgear-users] resolving sound problems

2005-01-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: I am so glad this was fixed - it was the number 1 question we kept getting from new users in the IRC channel. :) All those nagging users started to irritate me ;-) Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] resolving sound problems

2005-01-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Paul Surgeon wrote: I am so glad this was fixed - it was the number 1 question we kept getting from new users in the IRC channel. :) All those nagging users started to irritate me ;-) Watch out, if you let those users get to you too much, before you

Re: [Flightgear-users] Adding a red balloon to the flight gear environment

2005-01-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Geoffrey Frost wrote: I created a .dxf model of a red balloon using openfx software, and loaded it into flight gear according to David Megginson's Mini-HOWTO: 3D Aircraft Models in FlightGear. I followed the instructions listed below: The easiest way to load a new model is to set the property at

Re: [Flightgear-users] resolving sound problems

2005-01-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On January 25, 2005 05:11 pm, Erik Hofman wrote: In case anyone wonders, I've been working on a fix for it for one and a half day ... lol... I was expecting to see the word weeks, months or even years until the very last word. =) Hey, now you make me feel like I

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from Avsim] ERROR: ... Unknown exception... Possible cause: No error

2005-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=573mode=full Tough one, The only think I can see is the missing file error, he might check if it is actually present. Otherwise, quite a number of these type of problems have been fixed in the latest

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling FlightGear

2005-02-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Rahul Prasad wrote: I am trying to make FlightGear on a Linux RH distro. I have SimGear 0.3.8 installed, and the latest OpenAL CVS snapshot installed as well. During the FG build, make spits out the following message towards the end: FGNozzle.cpp:74: `snprintf' undeclared (first use this

Re: [Flightgear-users] F104 Engine Start issue

2005-02-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Giles Robertson wrote: I've installed the F104 from the website; the a/c runs fine (glides as well as a plane with no wings could be expected to do), however the engine refuses to start. There's no obvious reason in the config files why the startup procedure should be particularly odd; firing the

Re: [Flightgear-users] runtime errors

2005-02-04 Thread Erik Hofman
dave wrote: I'm trying to get fgfs running on my Pink Tie (a flavor of Fedora) system, and I get it to build fine, but when running I get a frozen splash screen and a series of these errors written to stdout: native_blitbuffer: select error occured Anyone recognize where these are coming from?

Re: [Flightgear-users] Unable to 'make' FG latest version

2005-02-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Aswin Kumar wrote: Hi list.. I have plib,mesa3d,Simgear,openal installed.. And Flight-gear compiles without problems. You will either need to install SDL or glut. If you did install glut then you can circumvent this problem by changing to the FlightGear/src directory and run mae from there.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Unable to 'make' FG latest version

2005-02-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Aswin Kumar wrote: The /src route didn't work.. again complains about some glut function The mesa3d libraries that installed are supposed to contain the glut lib also.. The following is a part of the messages that I got during 'configure' ---- checking for library containing

Re: [Flightgear-users] Non-functioning buttons on Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Mr Michael Rawlins wrote: I've been unable to figure out how to get the buttons to work on my new Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick. Axes seem to function OK when flying the Cessna, and button 1 (I guess that's really button 0) does work the breaks. jstest /dev/js0 shows on when I depress each

Re: [Flightgear-users] Non-functioning buttons on Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick

2005-02-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Mr Michael Rawlins wrote: 1. What operating system are you using. Linux Fedora Core 2. 2. What is the exact name of your joystick (including spaces, even trailing spaces, and capital or lowercase letters). Does this exact name appear in the extreme-3d-pro.xml file? jstest reports:

Re: [Flightgear-users] cessna 172RG or similar for complex training

2005-02-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Frank Singleton wrote: Hi, I am doing some complex aircraft training at the moment and looking for a Cessna 172RG model or similar for flightgear. - retractable gear - constant speed prop - gauges showing manifiold pressure etc I don't think we have one at the moment, but I figure it wouldn't

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compilation Problems

2005-02-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Doug Webb wrote: I compiled and ran FlightGear .9.8.pre2 successfully on Suse 9.1 but I have switched to Fedora Core 3 and now I can't get .9.8 to compile and run. Please don't answer switch back to Suse 9.1. The compiler crashes when it gets to FDM/UIUCModel/uiuc_menu_ice.cpp with a recursion

Re: [Flightgear-users] Segmentation Fault - Fedora Core 3 2.6.10

2005-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Doug Webb wrote: I ran the update program for Fedora Core 3 which updated the kernel, glibc and a few other things. Now FG will build but when I try to run it I get Segmentation Fault. I get the splash screen, a notice FG can't find the default runway then the Segmentation Fault. It doesn't get

Re: [Flightgear-users] Select airport from list

2005-02-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Ron Lange wrote: Hi, are the nescessary scenery files also downloaded and installed? FlightGear is delivered only with the w130n30 scenery tile. That's not the real problem. There was a software problem/bug in plib that is triggered by FlightGear. The next release should have this fixed. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Segmentation Fault - Fedora Core 3 2.6.10

2005-02-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Doug Webb wrote: I noticed that when I run configure in the FlightGear folder it can't find a library containing the function hid-init but otherwise it succeeds. Is that function necessary for FG to run? Only on BSD. I'm not aware of any other platform that needs it.

Re: [Flightgear-users] DATCOM error

2005-02-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Bill Galbraith wrote: I've been working on a DATCOM+ model for the A380, and discovered one of those pain in the butt errors, that caused MAJOR problems all due to one bad letter. I don't have a DATCOM user's group estabilshed, but I know a number of people on this list are using my DATCOM

Re: [Flightgear-users] Generic Output Question...

2005-02-13 Thread Erik Hofman
David Edwards wrote: I'm using v0.9.8 of FlightGear under Windows 2000, and am trying to get FG to log position and heading information to a file using the --generic option. (OK, it being windows, I'm using the GUI tool to select this, rather than the command line...) For some reason, FG is

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error loading scenery in 0.9.4

2005-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Nick Coleman wrote: You may be better posting to the flightgear-devel mail list. On the face of it, I don't see why your FDM won't work with the current version (0.9.8); it's only networking after all. The problem is that every now and then the struct that is sent over the network is

Re: [Flightgear-users] Okay ... who was it?

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I'll find out anyway. I can't stand people borrowing things from me and returning them like *that*! http://members.aon.at/mfranz/exhibit_A.jpg Hmm, this morning it was still in one piece ... and it was still painted yellow. Any chance the military may have something to do

Re: [Flightgear-users] Hardware and OS performance for FlightGear

2005-02-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Miles Gazic wrote: I'm starting plans for setting up a simulator lab at work using FlightGear. I've got my company's sim to output native-fdm style messages, and when I run FlightGear with --native-fdm=socket --fdm=external, our sim drives FlightGear without problems. The next step is to decide

Re: [Flightgear-users] in debian ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context

2005-03-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Jimmy Ott wrote: i'm running debian sid, with dri drm from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-unstable/ my laptop has an ATI IGP 340M graphic card. tuxracer works perfectly with opengl, only fgfs shows me the message ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context. This is often caused

Re: [Flightgear-users] Synchronising more than 2 instances of Flightgear

2005-03-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Or you can use the --native= option once with the broadcast address. Be cautious here, I've read somewhere that Windows by default doesn't listen to the broadcasts address anymore since a particular version (I don't know which one, but I believe XP). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: version 0.9.8

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: If you haven't seen the most recent JSBSim Newsletter, there is an article there that you might find interesting about connecting JSBSim to Matlab/Simulink. The next issue will be getting put together shortly, and there will likely be a surprise in that issue. A pleasant

Re: [Flightgear-users] newbie needs help

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Kishore wrote: Howdy Fellas' I am a newbie to FlightGear and am impressed by its performance. My greetings to all the developers and everyone associated with the projects development. I have a few queries about the generic I/O protocol. A quick Google search informed be that the protocol can

Re: [Flightgear-users] Input-Output native-fdm

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Ozan Mahir Alpagut wrote: i've got flightgear 0.9.6 installed. i run fgfs with these parameters fgfs.exe --fg-root=C:\FlightGear\data --fg-scenery=C:\FlightGear\data\Scenery --airport-id=KSFO --aircraft=ComperSwift --control=keyboard --disable-splash-screen --disable-intro-music

Re: [Flightgear-users] newbie needs help

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Currently i wish to have some property values outputted out of the serial port and have some other property values inputted through the same serial port. How do i do that? Have two separate protocol files and configure them as in and out respectivesly

Re: [Flightgear-users] frame rate lower at higher screen resolution (etc.)

2005-05-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Mike Rawlins wrote: A google search on flightgear and frame rate gave me a posting that suggested trying these options that have been shown to increase frame rate by ~300% (over default settings, as tested on SGI): --control=mouse --disable-intro-music --disable-random-objects --disable-sound

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6

2005-05-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Patrick Augereau wrote: Ok; this is something that isn't clear for me; what is exactly the data directory ? The data directory is the directory that (shouls) contain all the cross-platform data files of FlightGear, like the Aircraft directory, the gui directory, etc. In my install, I have most

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6

2005-05-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Kees Lemmens wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:07, Erik Hofman wrote: ... In my install, I have most of the files and directories (airport, aircraft, etc) in /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear so I thought it is the fg-root; in fact, in this directory, there is also that version file

Re: [Flightgear-users] Query:How to install in Linux?

2005-06-02 Thread Erik Hofman
iswarya damodharan wrote: Hai I am Iswarya from ADA.We are running FlightGear in Windows OS.We would like to run Flight Gear in Linux OS. How to install in Linux OS the FlightGear.What are the packages and downloads required to use FlightGear in Linux OS. It really depends on your

Re: [Flightgear-users] AC3D Tutorials

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Bill Galbraith wrote: *WARNING!* These files are huge, and take a LONG time to download, even with a fast Internet connection. The entire series is 950 Meg. Holycows, indeed. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Remote Joystick use

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: Hi all, I want to use a joystick from a remote system to control an aircraft on flightgear. I need the data to be sent to flightgear via UDP. My question is, how do I setup flightgear to receive the commands from a remote joystick? Do I use joy-client or jsclient? Or is

Re: [Flightgear-users] Remote Joystick use

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: That probably hasn't been tested for many years ... I wrote that up for a quick demo once. If you can get it to work great, otherwise if you are starting from scratch, you might be just as well off to use native-ctrls. Ehm, I meant the js_server program located in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Remote Joystick use

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the quick replies!!! Ehm, I meant the js_server program located in FlightGear/utils/js_server instead. I had read about that in the documentation and wanted to have a go at it... ummm... maybe I'm wrong... but I don't see the utils directory in the

Re: [Flightgear-users] the --jpg-httpd option

2005-06-14 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Does somebody know, what I have to do to be able to use the --jpg-httpd option (screenshots via http-server) with flightgear? Starting fgfs with that option doesn't work for me. I only get a message, that this option doesn't even exist. This sounds as if

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: the --jpg-httpd option

2005-06-15 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've another question about flightgear. I'm playing it with my roomate in multiplayer mode and we are currently trying to fly some formation. But with the faster aircrafts (f16, YF-23) we sometimes lose each other and it takes a long time to get together again. So I

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs as a Ground Control System?

2005-06-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Kitts wrote: CL I would just run with --fdm=null and pass in the CL data that you do have. Optionally you can compute estimates for things CL you don't have just to make the display prettier. Optionally i can compute? How? Is it not the FDM that does all that

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Joystick setup

2005-06-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: against CVS/HEAD to one of the other developers. (Erik is always happy about post. ;-) You can also send the diff to the developers list (if it isn't too Bah :-) Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Elevator Angle

2005-06-23 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find the extreme angles to which the elevator, or any other control surface for that matter, can deflect, for example between 25 and -15 degrees. The internal browser shows the input to the those surface positions from -1 to 1. I looked at the aircraft xml

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: the nimitz_demo HOW??

2005-06-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Josh, I'm right with you on this one. As I said, we shouldn't unnecessarily muck about with users' preferences, keyboards, joysticks, or whatever. David has a good point too: many user's will never find the refuelling, thermal or carrier stuff. I wonder how many users know

Re: [Flightgear-users] a few questions about the f16

2005-06-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Bernhard Auzinger wrote: Hi everybody, when flying the f16 in a dive with full thrust, the elevator begins to bounce up and down at about 800 knots. But why? Is it the fly-by-wire system of the f16, which is holding the a/c in a stable flight attitude? Or is it a failure in the Model? It

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error in Simgear compile

2005-07-04 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: While compiling Simgear on Fedora core 3 (and core 4 earlier in the evening) I keep encountering this error: I've committed a fix for this a few minutes ago. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compile flightgear fails

2005-07-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Dirk Vornheder wrote: Compile latest flightgear version from cvs fails: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to `ulSetError(ulSeverity, char const*, ...)' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compile flightgear fails

2005-07-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Dirk Vornheder wrote: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to `ulSetError(ulSeverity, char const*, ...)' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to `ulStrDup(char const*)' I've updated the Makefile in that

Re: [Flightgear-users] Hardware requirements

2005-07-09 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod (email lists) wrote: On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 03:58, James Vahn wrote: Pick something for me at http://zipzoomfly.com in the $50 range, if you'd be so kind. Hmm. I know there are plenty of people here with far better technical knowledge of 3D graphics and the relative merits of

Re: [Flightgear-users] Pixel Details

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Hofman
iswarya damodharan wrote: Sir, I am using Flight Gear and I am using terra gear only for scenery database. I have downloaded the sceneries from the world map provided by flight gear.You have not mention the pixel resolution. I would like to know how many meters does a single pixel represent.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Pixel Details

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Hofman
C Ridley - OnCall Solutions wrote: I would hope we do not nit pick our non-English speaking friends. Hey, I'm not blaming anybody, I just cautiously tried to explain something. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: FlightGear server field test

2005-07-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Pigeon wrote: And speaking of FlightGear server, does anyone know what's going on with http://fg-server.sourceforge.net/ ? Nothing much for over two years. It's just one of five or six attempts to create a multiplayer engine for FlightGear. None of them (except the current

Re: [Flightgear-users] aerosim and flightgear

2005-07-16 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all I am trying to run on a pc flightgear, and on the other, matlab executing the aerosim blockset. Firstly, the c172 blocksets do not have a flight gear interface. The blockset that does have an interface is aerosonde, but flightgear does not have a aersonde

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling FlightGear

2005-07-17 Thread Erik Hofman
scott wrote: Well, now the next problem. The error occurs during the make of the SimGear. This is the tailing code snippet: In file included from sgstream.hxx:47, from sgstream.cxx:35: ../../simgear/misc/zfstream.hxx:33:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory This one is

Re: [Flightgear-users] SimGear compile problem

2005-07-19 Thread Erik Hofman
John Matro wrote: I can't compile SimGear-0.3.8 on my Mandrake 10.1 Linux system. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I ran the ./configure okay. But when I run 'make check' it ends with an error. The last few lines of the screen display are below (I added some blank lines for

Re: [Flightgear-users] slow framerates with Nvidia PIC Express under Linux solved !

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Kees Lemmens wrote: But ... yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA-7667 driver and now Flightgear works perfectly well on this system ! I even can use 1280x1024 and still have high framerates without any noticable hickups ! It looks like they use FlightGear now to test their drivers :-)

Re: [Flightgear-users] slow framerates with Nvidia PICExpress underLinux solved !

2005-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: I'm not sure that the PAPI/VASI lights are the problem. The FLOLS on the carrier does the same job and they are quite vertex intensive, but don't pull the frame rate down noticeably. The difference is that the runway lights are modeled using GL_POINT_SMOOTH instead of

Re: [Flightgear-users] licensing question

2005-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: It doesn't really seem to make sense to release aircraft under the GPL as they aren't really source code. If an aircraft were released under the Creative Commons license, would it be compatible enough to be part of the base package? Or does GPL work fine? GPL works fine,

Re: [Flightgear-users] licensing question

2005-08-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:54:42 +0200, Erik wrote in message Every once in a while I work on a small project where it could be important to get it widely accepted. In such case BSD the the license of choice. ..this used to be a wise advice in pretty much the same sense it

[Flightgear-users] Weather makers

2005-08-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I drove through Germany a few days ago and there I discovered they are the ones responsible for the weather! Cloud generation: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/images/hpim3791.jpg Wind generation: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/images/hpim3794.jpg No wonder it's cloudy in The Netherlands

Re: [Flightgear-users] setting up the FDM

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Since this is a JSBSim only question I've forwarded this to the jsbsim mailinglist. I would advise you to subscribe to that list also: http://jsbsim.org/ http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jsbsim-devel Erik bass pumped wrote: Hi all, Could someone give me a better idea on how the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Logging feature in FlightGear

2005-08-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Dan Zelazo wrote: Hello all, I am currently running FlightGear 0.9.2 and am trying to make sense of the Logging option in the File menu. It appears from the menu that you can log aircraft states (like attitude, rates, etc.) to a .csv file. I can't seem to find any .csv files and have not

Re: [Flightgear-users] wrong way for my plane

2005-08-30 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how change it to put the fuselage in the road's axis ! You will need to create a model animation file that references you original model file and rotation offset. This file gets included from your -set.xml file: Here is the animation model.xml file (which needs to

Re: [Flightgear-users] aircraft control

2005-09-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Rick Simmons wrote: So far I have been unable to attain straight and level flight. Using keyboard control I find the rudder will not return to centre, also the cesna needs constant correction to prevent veering to left on take off. I have tried several parameters i.e. :- fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-users] 1900D Progress

2005-09-13 Thread Erik Hofman
T J wrote: How is the 1900D? Is the update posted yet? It's in CVS, yes. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-users] Help with 1900D Files

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Hofman
T J wrote: How do I get the updated files? From the Aircraft Download Page, the files are not updated. No, and there is a good reason for that, the latest files might not work properly with previous versions of FlightGear (because of changed animations types and configuration file formats

Re: [Flightgear-users] Updating v0.9.8 via CVS

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Mike Rawlins wrote: I'm considering doing an update of my version 0.9.8 which I installed after its release in February. At that time I installed plib, simgear, and FG through CVS checkout of source and data to my system running linux (FC2). The previous few full installs (configure, make,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Does anyone know of an f16-specific autopilot?

2005-09-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Michael Matkovic wrote: If there's an F16-specific autopilot for flightgear, could you please let me know where I could get it? I've been using the generic autopilot without a great deal of success, obviously. The work I am involved in requires a JSBSim aircraft like the F16. Unfortunately,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Does anyone know of an f16-specific autopilot?

2005-09-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Michael Matkovic wrote: Erik, What is your opinion on attempting to use the YF-23 autopilot with the F16? It would be great to have a working autopilot for the F-16. For me it doesn't matter if it comes from the YF-23 or for the J3cub :-) Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using the generic protocol for playback with playback.xml

2005-09-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Has anyone else used the playback.xml generic protocol for replay? To be honest this was just a test configuration file to test the input capabilities when I wrote the generic protocol. It was meant to be extended for real playback at a later date. I guess no-one

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using the generic protocol for playback with playback.xml

2005-09-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: For a test configuration file, it works pretty well. I'm impressed. I'll have a look at enhancing it. Will I be able to simply add new parameters to the xml file and have them read/written appropriately, or will I need to write some C code? No, that's the main reason

Re: [Flightgear-users] Interface of simulink with FG98

2005-09-30 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Matlab 7 R14 installed including the aerospace blockset v1.6 which contains a demo model which apparently interfaces with Flightgear. The documentation says... Copy the HL20 folder from matlabroot\toolbox\aeroblks\aerodemos directory to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Request: How to compile FGFS on Win32 + Cygwin

2005-10-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Kevin Jones wrote: OK. I use Win32 and I have Cygwin. How do I compile FGFS in this environment? Is there a cygwin compile guide? There are two approaches described here: html

Re: [Flightgear-users] Request: How to compile FGFS on Win32 + Cygwin

2005-10-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: It was removed to allow landing on carriers - you can have one or the other but not both right now. I believe (but I'm not 100% sure) that the deck of an AC has to be declared solid in the configuration files, so in theory both should be possible. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Appealing to MS Windows community

2005-10-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: Heh:) ...the number of times I wish I had the wherewithal to make an animation tool - something that would allow me to test and reload model animations without having to run full FG to test each change. Especially something that would allow me to test undercarriage

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling simgear/flightgear in mingw/msys

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Frank Olaf wrote: metar.cxx: In member function `void SGMetar::useCurrentDate()': metar.cxx:162: error: `gmtime_r' undeclared (first use this function) metar.cxx:162: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) I think I have this fixed in CVS

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling simgear/flightgear in mingw/msys

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Frank Olaf wrote: Thanks, that was impressively quick. The compilation now cleanly passes the point in question, but it now holds on a different error that also seems to be related to pthreads. The error message is quite correct, there is no config.h in the same directory as pthread.h.

Re: [Flightgear-users] mem leaks ?

2005-10-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Just as a heads up, Mathias has sent me a patch containing a number of memory leak fixes that where tracked down by valgrind. I hope I can commit it later today. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod wrote: That looks really excellent! Finally we have two cohesive tutorials to point complete flying newbies to that are written with FG in mind (there are a reasonable number of these folk turn up on the IRC channel now and again) Actually, we have three (at least0. In the Docs

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Actually, we have three (at least). Actually, there's four: http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/Tutorials/circuit/ Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOOO! not more pdf! pdf is closed , proprietary difficult to modify, huge and generally bad. So what do you suggest as a cross-platform alternative? (And don't mention OpenOffice since it hasn't been ported to many platforms and is way overkill for just reading

[Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: Would it be a good idea to add a tanker, say an A-6 Intruder to the aircraft carrier scenario? We could set it up in an orbit over the carrier at 5000 feet. Actually, this triggers something else I've been thinking of. Right now all scenario's take place at KSFO. If we

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